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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

BJP state BJP Yuva Morcha vice president Hrishikesh Pai said here on Saturday that prime minister Narendra Modi would be unveiling the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, in Gorta (B) village in Bidar district.

The foundation stone for the statue had been laid by BJP national president Amit Shah last year. The unveiling ceremony was scheduled to be on September 17. But the day would be Ganesh Chaturthi and hence the event has been held over to a later date.

The state unit of Yuva Morcha is elated that it would be the very first of its programmes with Modi participating in it.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Bhagwant Khuba, MP, inaugurated the indoor stadium built by the Karnataka Rashtriya Education Society on Gumpa Road in Bidar on Thursday.

It has two shuttle badminton courts, one health club and a gymnasium. It was built under a cost sharing scheme of University Grants Commission. Some philanthropists like Shankarrao Kotarki and Madiwalappa Mangalagi have also contributed to the project. The MP has also promised help to the project.

Basavaraj Patil Ashtur, president of the KRE society, said the facilities would be open for students of the society’s various institutions. Qualified coaches would be appointed to train them, he said.

Sri Shivakumar Swami of Siddharoodh Math, Channabasappa Halahalli, president of the KRE trust, and others were present.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Air Marshal Ramesh Rai, Air Officer Commanding-In-Chief, Training Command, Bengaluru will visit the Air Force Station Bidar on Thursday (June 11).

A 1976 batch fighter pilot, he is a Category–A trainer with 4,500 hours of flying experience. He has been the defense attaché in the Indian Embassy in Israel and Senior Air Staff Officer in the Central Air Force command. As Air officer commanding of AFS, Bidar, Mr. Rai oversaw the induction of Hawk trainer aircrafts into the IAF.

His wife and President of Air force Wives Welfare Association (Regional) Jyoti Rai, will accompany him, said a release.

MP Bhagwant Khuba displays a ticket bought at the new Ticket-Counter inaugurated in Bidar Railway Station on Tuesday.

All pending Railway development works have been put on fast-track, MP Bhagwant Khuba said in Bidar on Tuesday.

The Bidar–Kalaburgi Railway line will be completed by June 2016 while the Pit-line in Khanapur near Bidar will be completed by December this year, he said.

He was speaking after inaugurating a new platform and other facilities, in the Railway Station as part of the Passenger amenities.

“Nearly 70 per cent of the work on the Pit-line was over. Once it is completed, we will be able to run new trains from Bidar as the cleaning and servicing of trains can be done locally,” the MP said.

Ashish Agarwal, Divisional Railway Manager, said Bidar was being developed as a model station with a standard set of passenger amenities. “We have taken up extensive plantation in the empty space in the station.” He said works like improving the running room were in progress and concreting of platforms and watering of carriages were being planned.

Mr. Agarwal agreed to consider a request by former Rahim Khan, about running the Bidar-Hyderabad intercity train from Nampalli Station and not Secunderabad as is being done now.

Earlier, the Lok Sabha member inaugurated a new platform, additional shelters, an additional reservation counter, a ticket counter on the rear side of the station near Gandhi Gunj market, extension of the foot-over bridge, coach watering system, solar pump, solar lamps and LED bulbs, and other amenities built at a total of Rs 5 crore.

Pending railway development works have been put on fast track, Bhagwant Khuba, MP, has said in Bidar on Tuesday.

The Bidar–Kalaburagi railway line will be completed by June, 2016, while the pit line in Khanapur near Bidar will be completed by December this year, he said.

He was speaking after inaugurating a new platform and other facilities at the railway station as part of the ‘Passenger Amenities Fortnight’.

Ashish Agarwal, Divisional Railway Manager, said Bidar was being developed as a model station with a standard set of passenger amenities. We have taken up extensive plantation on the empty space at the station, he said.

He said works like improving the running room were in progress and concreting of platforms and watering of carriages were being planned.

The Lok Sabha member inaugurated a new platform, additional shelters, an additional reservation counter, a ticket counter on the rear side of the station near Gandhi Gunj market, extension of the foot-over-bridge, coach watering system, solar pump, solar lamps and LED bulbs as well as other amenities built at a total of Rs. 5 crore.

The HinduFarmers show damaged fruits to members of IMCT who are on Bidar tour to assess crop-loss in Bidar on Tuesday.

An Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) of officials visited Bidar on Tuesday to assess the damage caused by heavy rain and hailstorms and interact with affected farmers.

The team visited Anadur, Hallikhed, Kanakatta and Humnabad before leaving for Kalaburagi. They said three teams were touring parts of Karnataka and would submit a report to the Union Government soon.

Vithal Reddy, said he had suffered huge losses as mango trees on his four-acre farm had failed completely. Manik Bhadrappa, a farmer from Anadur, demanded the Union Government release a compensation of at least Rs. 50,000 per acre.

Caretakers of the Kudre farm in Anadur Wadi said their crop loss was nearly 95 per cent.

The IMCT team included Akhilesh Kamal, Director, National Project on Rinderpest Eradication, B.K. Mishra, Assistant Director, Finance, and Rakesh Bharadwaj, Under Secretary, Rural Development Ministry.